Jury finds former Chillicothe Correctional Institution officer guilty

Tampering with evidence charge involved spitting on own shirt

7:23 AM,
Mar. 21, 2013

Norman Fleagle III

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A Ross County jury found a former corrections officer guilty of tampering with evidence for spitting on his own shirt and claiming an inmate had done it.

Norman Fleagle III, 26, of Wilmington, was working at Chillicothe Correctional Institution when the incident happened in a segregation unit Dec. 31, 2011. Fleagle testified Wednesday, the second day of his trial, and claimed he was pressured by the Ohio Highway Patrol investigator to explain why his saliva DNA was on the shirt where the inmate's should have been if he had spit on Fleagle.